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DRAWN TOGETHER Caricaturist Edward Sorel discusses and signs his book “Literary Lives” (Bloomsbury), which features 10 illustrated biographies of literary figures, including Leo Tolstoy, Jean-Paul Sartre, Marcel Proust, and Norman Mailer. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 212-595-6859, free.
SWAN STORIES David Mitchell reads from his novel “Black Swan Green” (Random House), which consists of 13 connected stories about a young teenager growing up in England in 1982. Tonight, 7 p.m., Three Lives & Co., 154 W. 10th St. at Waverly Place, 212-741-2069, free.
PEARL OF WISDOM Mary Gordon reads from her novel “Pearl” (Pantheon), about a New York single mother whose daughter chains herself to a flagpole outside the American Embassy in Dublin while studying linguistics in Ireland. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble Astor Place, 4 Astor Place at Broadway, 212-420-1322, free.
